The Harlem Renaissance Part 2

The Harlem Renaissance Part 2

In my first blog post about the Harlem Renaissance, I talked about how it was a cultural explosion and how there was a lot of racial tension during this period. In this blog post, I want to focus more on race, women and how the New Negro Movement helped move this movement forward.



Due to the racial tension in this time, Harlem was the absolute perfect location for this explosion of culture and new ideas. What ended up emerging from this time was a swarm of new ideas and new views. What came out of this was a New Negro.

The New Negro was educated, they spoke well, they were progressive thinkers. Unlike their ancestors, their ancestors were old fashioned, they weren't educated, a lot of them were former slaves.  An example of someone who was a New Negro was someone like W.E.B DuBois who thought very progressively, he was really ahead of his time and his biggest opponent was Booker T. Washington.  W.E.B. DuBois believed in immediate action while Booker T. Washington believed in slow and steady steps.


Overall in both of my blog posts about the Harlem Renaissance it's easy to see how this explosion of culture lead to the development of new ideas and much more progressive thinking.